I'm as MAGA as the next guy, but honestly I'd rather we full-on pull everything out of the middle east, embassies included, and just say "fuck that place" until we get an Ottoman Empire 2.0 that can manage the region themselves.
This crap of the west and Russia piecing out the corpse of Ottoman Empire 1.0 for the last 100 years like the spheres of influence in China in the 1890's is getting exhausting and is creating an arab diaspora that is devastating european cultural centers.
Originally Posted by GastonGlock
Commentators on the news last night pointed out that one of the more popular talking points at Trump rallies is getting our troops out of the Middle East. There's already talk of Iraq asking us to leave, so maybe it all depends on whether they fuck up their end game.
Kind of comes off like a "wag the dog" scenario that the GOP is always accusing Dems of, as in the case of Clinton's airstrikes in Sudan, Iraq, and Kosovo on the heels of his impeachment. And Trump famously predicted that Obama would start a war with Iran to get re-elected, but that didn't happen.
https://www.businessinsider.com/old-...ar-iran-2020-1
But it could be that it was all about saving American lives, like the Pentagon says. "We'll see, said the Zen master".
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charlie_Wilson%27s_War
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...aunt-quds-iran
We didn't get the full story about the Gulf of Tonkin or about Iraq's WMD's for years, so I don't expect we'll get the full story about this one anytime soon.